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Green Island, Iowa

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52064. It lies near Mooney Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Green Island quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Green Island within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Green Island between 2006 and 2014, burning about 98 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeWHITTON GATE
25 May 2008Natural75 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge1700'S
9 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeBROWN'S LAKE
2 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Green Island: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pataska QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shelly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Island in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1994HailGreen Island$50,000no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindGreen Island$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Reeceville2.2 miles15
Twin Springs2.5 miles15
Pleasant Creek4.5 miles13
Van Buren5.3 miles13
Rockaway (historical)5.9 miles13
Lainsville6.4 miles23
Sterling6.5 miles13
Miles7.3 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Green IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5602696The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 457102. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.